Imagine a landscape defined by sea and rock, by ice and wind, a people with hands blackened by coal, cut and calloused by fishing line, a place where grandfathers and great-great-grandmothers hover in memory as if they still lived.
This is the Cape Breton Island of writer Alistair MacLeod. For nearly 40 years, MacLeod has carefully chosen his words, putting this place on the page in the long-hand of his youth. He’s not your one-book-a-year novelist; his readers content themselves with painstakingly-rendered short stories and MacLeod’s celebrated 1999 novel, “No Great Mischief.” Apparently, it’s enough for the critics, too. Later today he will take home to Cape Breton one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
(Hosted by Dick Gordon)
Guests:
Author Alistair MacLeod